Friday, July 17, 2009

Atlus Teases a New Shin Megami Tensei Title?

Teaser sites? Yeah, Atlus likes them as much as any company. They just recently threw a brand new teaser site up for their next game. There's not much there besides the bottom of a planet (presumably Earth?) covered in disappearing squares. Occasionally clues or quotes from the game will flash across the screen in Japanese, like "We are 'Hope'!" (私たちは「希望」だぞ!)

The opening line talking about an unavoidable fate, and the hint about the South Pole (which has a giant hole in it in the picture) are probably the most telling sections of the teaser, and certainly point to a post-apocolyptic title (a favorite subject of Atlus' flagship Shin Megami Tensei series).

Reportedly, some internet matlocks have discovered from the site's source code that the game will be titled Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Also discovered were some numbers that may suggest a release date: 10.08. These could point to August 8 (a Saturday, so not too likely), October 10 (another Saturday), or August 2010 (pretty far off to be getting a reveal now).

I haven't substantiated any of this myself, so I'm going to leave it all as a RUMOR until the game's official announcement on July 24 (next Friday). Or until Famitsu spoils the fun early, as usual. ;)

Currently no title, platform, genre, or anything else has been officially confirmed. Is there anything you're dying to see from Atlus?

[Atlus New Teaser Site]
[Destructoid (Matlocking)]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hopefully it's smt 4 for 360/ps3, or something along those lines.

i mean persona for psp and devil survior for ds are nice, but everyones been fiending for a next-gen smt game.

can't wait, better be good too.

Anonymous said...

It's for the DS.